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Originally Posted by To Be Quite Honest
It's a nice article that generates interest in our topic but it does not talk specifically about diet, just culture. What foods were eaten by each child and how often (or when).
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No it doesn't talk specifically about diet, but as mentioned diet varies across culture, everyone keeps on talking about obesity rates in NA compared to other areas.
As the quote says "A uniform prevalence rate worldwide also suggests, disappointingly, that geographical variation will not provide fresh clues to the causation of ADHD." If there was something in the data that showed a clear difference between cultures, then they'd start looking at the differences between cultures and go from there, but the variation wasn't statistically significant enough to even warrant that according to this.
That said a search on pubmed shows many studies relating to diet and ADHD in children.
https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/b...pdf?sequence=1
Has a bit of a summary with references to some relevant papers.
So it's not something that's ignored, and as you suggest could probably use some more study.
EDIT: More study is good for the future, but we still have to help now as well.